Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Whatever limits us we call Fate.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the 'domestic hearth,' which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.
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I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
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I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
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Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with.
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We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!
